LDC GP - Key Persons
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- Investment Director / North East & Scotland
Aaron supports ambitious management teams across the North East and Scotland, helping them to realise their growth ambitions with the support of a private equity partner.
Aaron joined LDC in 2022, he has previously supported a range of ambitious, fast-growing businesses across a range of sectors throughout the UK. Aaron sits on the board at Mandata.
Prior to joining LDC, Aaron had 15 years' experience across private equity/venture capital and corporate banking, supporting the growth of scale-up to mid-market businesses across all sectors. Aaron is a passionate technologist having invested into a number of IT software, hardware, infrastructure and services businesses.
After graduating from the University of Northumbria with a degree in Business Finance, Aaron had a successful career in Corporate & Institutional Banking for over 10 years before joining NVM Private Equity and the Northern VCTs, becoming an Investment Partner for the fund, investing nationally and responsible for c£0.5bn funds under management.
Alex partners with LDC portfolio companies with their ongoing ESG programme, which is embedded throughout the lifecycle of its partnerships, from the initial investment through to exit.
Alex joined LDC from Deloitte where he spent ten years in the company's ESG Advisory practice. There, he developed extensive experience helping businesses to develop ESG strategies and understand, track and clearly communicate their performance to stakeholders.
Alex works across LDC's national portfolio, supporting the firm's ongoing ESG programme, which is embedded throughout the lifecycle of its partnerships, from the initial investment through to exit.
Alex holds a BA in Geography from The University of Oxford.
Alex oversees LDC's tax function, working with the investment and portfolio teams on prospective investments, tax considerations relevant to portfolio companies and exit transactions.
Before joining LDC, Alex was lead tax counsel at the central bank of Norway, which manages Norway's Government Pension Fund Global, invested in 9,000+ companies around the world. Prior to that Alex was part of the tax team at law firm Latham & Watkins, advising private equity funds, corporates, sovereign investors and financial institutions.
Alex trained as a lawyer at Hogan Lovells, is a graduate of the law school at Nottingham Trent University and holds a BA in Jurisprudence from Oxford University.
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- Investment Manager / North West
Alex is an Investment Manager in LDC's North West team, based in Manchester. He spends his time working with ambitious, local management teams to understand and demonstrate how LDC can support the next phase of their growth plans as a private equity partner.
Prior to joining LDC, Alex spent 9 years at Deloitte principally working in their lead advisory practice in the North West, where he supported a range of local businesses in realising successful equity events.
Alex graduated from the University of Sheffield with a Maths and Economics degree and is an ICAEW chartered accountant. Outside of work, Alex enjoys golfing, running and is an avid Liverpool fan.
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- Investment Manager / London
Alex works with ambitious management teams looking to grow their business with the support of a private equity partner.
Alex joined LDC in 2021 from mid-market private equity firm Next Wave Partners where he supported new investments and worked with portfolio company management teams across sectors including Media Services, Transport & Logistics, Property Services and Consumer. Alex previously held a portfolio company financial management role with Maris, an investment holding company focused on Sub-Saharan Africa; and began his career at PwC in Audit and Transaction Services, conducting financial due diligence for transactions primarily in the Business Services, Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals sectors.
Alex read Modern History and Politics at St Anne's College, University of Oxford and is a chartered accountant.
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- Co - Founder of Sustainability Advisory
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- Investment Manager / Yorkshire
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- VCP Director, Procurement & Supply Chain
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- Investment Manager / Yorkshire
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- VCP Manager, Cyber Security
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- Croud 's Chief Strategy Officer
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- Partner
- Partner / North West
Aziz Ul-Haq, partner at leading private equity investor LDC, discusses how the firm is supporting its healthcare portfolio companies to achieve their growth strategies in a fast-moving market.
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- Personal Assistant / London
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- Partner and Head of West Midlands Reflects
Chris Handy, Partner and Head of West Midlands reflects on 2024 and looks ahead to the market in 2025.
Chris Handy, Partner and Head of West Midlands reflects on LDC's successful partnership with The King's Trust, which helps aspiring young entrepreneurs to turn their ambitions into reality.
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- Partner, Head of North West / North West
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- Investment Manager / London
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- Partner, Head of Yorkshire / Yorkshire
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- Office Manager
- Personal Assistant
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- Partner, Head of East Midlands and East of England
David Gilbertson has over 25 years' experience helping businesses in the technology sector to grow, here he gives his views on the impact of AI.
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- Partner, Head of South West & Wales / South West & Wales
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- Non - Executive Chair of Two LDC Portfolio Companies, Deltron Group
Duncan Cooper, Non-Executive Chair of two LDC portfolio companies, Deltron Group, and Texecom, has a wealth of experience in the industrials sector, in both other non-exec and exec roles.
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- Investment Executive / London
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- Investment Manager
- Investment Manager / North East & Scotland
Emma joined LDC in 2022 from family-office investment firm Middleton Enterprises, where she helped to develop a new private equity strategy and supported investments into growing SMEs across the country.
Since joining LDC, Emma has supported the investment in employee engagement consultancy Scarlettabbott, the SMBO of Scotland's largest independent IT managed service provider Kick ICT, the exit of Lomond to ICG delivering 3.5x money multiple return for LDC, and the merger of portfolio company Connect Health with Healthshare.
Emma graduated from Durham University and is an ICAEW chartered accountant. She came to the North East from London, where she managed a number of private dental practices, before spending almost six years at KPMG. Outside of work Emma enjoys travelling and can be found on a beach or at the gym, where she has recently taken up CrossFit.
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- Investment Manager / North West
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- Investment Manager / London
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- Partner, Head of North East & Scotland / North East & Scotland
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- ICT Infrastructure Manager
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- Personal Assistant / Yorkshire
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- Origination Director / North West
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- Investment Director / North West
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- Personal Assistant / North East & Scotland
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- Investment Director / South
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- Personal Assistant / North West
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- Investment Director / South
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- Investment Director / Yorkshire
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- Investment Executive / North West
Jerry Buhlmann, Non-Executive Chair of two LDC-backed media businesses - Croud and Hybrid, has more than 30 years' international experience in the media sector.
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- Investment Director / London
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- Origination Director
- Origination Director / South
Jonathan is responsible for identifying management teams across the South that would benefit from the support of a private equity partner in realising their business' growth ambitions.
Since joining LDC in 2001, Jonathan has originated more than 20 investment partnerships across the Thames Valley and the South. This has included a number of well-known businesses such as Comdirect, Airclaims, United Legal Services, Iris, Property Software Group and Clifford Thames.
Most recently, he originated LDC's investments in DSP, Ashtons Hospital Pharmacy Services, Lucid Group, Paladone and Aquavista - all of which have benefitted significantly from the strategic and financial support of LDC.
Prior to joining LDC, Jonathan spent five years in corporate banking and business development at Lloyds Banking Group after graduating from Nottingham University.
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- Investment Director / London
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- Investment Manager / London
Karen Mann - Chief Investment Officer
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- Head of Marketing and Communications
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- Investment Director / Scotland
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- VCP Director, Operations, Carve Out & Integration
Mark Howden - Chief Investment Officer
Matt Newbold - Chief Investment Officer
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- Managing Partner, Head of London
- Managing Partner, Head of London / London
Nicol leads LDC's team in London and supports ambitious management teams looking to grow their business in and around the capital. He is also a member of LDC's Investment Committee.
Throughout a 28-year career in private equity, Nicol has made investments and supported management teams across all sectors with a particular focus on tech-enabled business services and niche financial services. Prior to LDC, Nicol led BGF's investment team in London and the South East.
Before joining BGF, Nicol worked for 20 years as a Partner with private equity firm, Dunedin LLP, leading the new investment team. He began his career in private equity working for five years with Bridgepoint.
Nicol is graduate of Edinburgh University and a Chartered Accountant, also spending five years post qualification working in corporate recovery.
On a more personal level, Nicol has a passion for sport and (rock) music with triathlon, rugby, skiing and fishing as favourite pastimes.
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- Investment Director / South West & Wales
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- Investment Manager / North East & Scotland
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- VCP Director, Data Strategy & AI
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- Reception Coordinator / London
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- Partner, Head of Value Creation Partners
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- Investment Director / North West
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- Investment Executive / South West & Wales
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- Non - Executive Director at Stonbury
Sarah McMath, Non-Executive Director at Stonbury - a water and environmental management services business - has deep experience in business services.
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- Office Manager
- Personal Assistant
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- Office Manager & Personal Assistant / North West
Simon Peacock - Chief Investment Officer
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- Sets the Stage for Growth
- Specialist Production Agency
Our partnership is enabling the team at specialist production agency Star Live to continue overseas expansion whilst investing in its people, brand and facilities.
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- Investment Director / South West & Wales
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- Director of Business Management
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- Investment Manager / London
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- VCP Director, Technology Transformation
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- Investment Manager / South
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- Investment Manager / South West & Wales
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- Investment Director / Yorkshire
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- Origination Director / North East & Scotland